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1) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
2) Nina
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
NiNA and Wotjek are a married (but mismatched) couple; They’re eager to have a child, but NiNA can’t conceive. When a chance encounter introduces them to Magda, Wotjek believes they may have found a suitable surrogate. But meeting the fiercely independent, single-minded Magda awakens a repressed desire in NiNA, causing events to spiral out of everyone’s control.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
Many of us know the freedom of our twenties—unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michał resolve to experience life to the limit. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with best friend Michał,...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
An exceptionally gifted teenage boy is about to start studying physics at a university specializing in the theory of parallel worlds. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his mother, who steers his life, seems incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters,...
Publisher
First Look Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
George and George are both 83. Every summer they sail together on the Mazury lakes in northeast Poland, happy with the simplicity of life, the beauty of nature and their friendship. In this intimate film of friendship and joy, we see what might be their last summer on the lakes together.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
7) Line 41
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
This documentary follows a Holocaust and Lodz Ghetto survivor as he returns to Poland. Until now, Natan Grossmann had repressed his desire to learn about the fate of his brother he lost contact with in 1942. 70 years later, Grossmann starts a search for his missing brother. His search crosses paths with Jens-Jurgen Ventzki, son of the former Nazi Head Mayor of Lodz. Ventzki is pursuing his family's dark secret. In tracing their family histories, they...
8) Demon
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Polish
Description
Peter receives a piece of land as a gift for his upcoming wedding. While preparing the property to build a home for his new family, he finds human remains in the ground. He decides to keep the discovery to himself so that all of the wedding arrangements can go on as planned. However, the deeper he tries to keep his secret, the more he seems to be under control of something -- or rather someone -- as strange visions and events begin to haunt the celebratory...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
Catholic priest Adam lives in rural Poland, where he works with teenagers otherwise forgotten by their community. He succeeds in declining the advances of a local woman, as his embrace of the priesthood has become a flight from facing the truth of his own sexuality. When he meets the taciturn son of a simple rural family, his self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden. Winner - Teddy Award - Berlin Int'l Film Festival.
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires. Agata is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbor Marzena –...
11) Spoor
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize.
13) Corpus Christi
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. Over the course of his incarceration he has found Christ, and aspires to join the clergy - but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for...
14) The Innocents
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
Warsaw, December 1945: the second World War is finally over and French Red Cross doctor Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked nun appears at the clinic begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy. A non-believer, Mathilde enters the sisters’ fiercely private world, dictated...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Polish
Description
Golden Lion (Best Film) winner at the 1984 Venice Film Festival, this quietly brilliant gem is set in Poland during the aftermath of WWII. A tragic love affair develops between an American sergeant (Scott Wilson) and a freightened Polish widow (Maja Komorowska).
16) Sword of God
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Polish
Description
In the early Middle Ages, a contingent of knights embarks on a dangerous journey to spread Christianity and baptize the pagan inhabitants of an isolated village hidden deep in the mountains of a faraway island. After being shipwrecked, the two survivors set out to complete their mission, but as they attempt to convert the tribe, their diverging beliefs put them at odds with each other. Soon, love is confronted with hate, peace with violence, sanity...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Polish
Description
This Orwellian sci-fi thriller reverberates with such wildly different influences such as Terry Gilliam, Steven Spielberg, Philp K. Dick, Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris. Set in the dystopian future of 2030 Warsaw, a man wakes up without any memory of his previous life and finds an old radio from the 1950s that triggers mysterious visions of another past life. As he tries to piece together his past identity with the...
18) Tremors
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Polish
Description
An short film focusing on the examination of teenage angst and the relentless energy of youth. Nominated for a Silver Lion in the Short Feature Film Competition at the **Polish Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Cinematography for Short Film Award and Nominated for the Short Fabular Film Debut Competition Award at the **Koszalinski Film Festival.**
19) The Big Animal
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt and Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their home. The couple quickly forms a close bond with the nameless camel, but as the bond grows stronger, their neighbors slowly begin to ostracize them. Scripted by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, directed by star Jerzy Stuhr and shot in shimmering black-and-white by Oscar®-winning cinematographer Pawel Edelman, THE BIG ANIMAL is a passionate film that exposes greed...
20) In Touch
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
The story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ‘’The Land of Thousand Lakes’’. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80’s and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into...
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